"City of Badb"

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I joke woke up from a rather peculiar dream, as most are.

All I can recall immediately is viewing a large white and golden palace from high above, like from the perspective of a bird. I knew this city as "Badb" somehow. I think I may have heard it earlier in the dream. In my mind, it shared the likeness and infamy of Babylon. I descended before the entrance of the great city, just outside the polished marble walls. There, a woman guided me inside. I could tell the whole city was deserted, but everything was still clean. It looked like everybody just stopped what they were doing and left. The woman led me to a row of red curtains. She explained that behind each curtain was a coffer, of sorts, for each member of the royal family. The way she spoke of them it was as if they were all dead. I couldn't confirm this, though. She peeked behind each curtain, shouting a sum of dollars... usually several million. At one coffer for a young woman, she said with great excitement, "43 million!!!".

That's basically all I recall from the city of "Badb"